#formed

Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy. ↗

— Brad Henry

#democracy #educated #electorate #informed #our

Faculty met, and after the usual business, some conversation was had about certain students being addicted to drinking, and it was reported that a citizen of the village had informed a member of the Faculty that there was a good deal of drinking this term among the students. ↗

— Daniel H. Hill

#addicted #after #among #being #business

Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#domestic #exquisite #homey #kitchen #kitchen table

I was raised - professionally - in the Public Integrity Section. I started in 1976, stayed there for 12 years. It was formed after Watergate by then-head of the Criminal Division Dick Thornburgh, who ultimately became Attorney General. ↗

— Eric Holder

#attorney #attorney general #became #criminal #division

For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed? ↗

— Bell Hooks

#always #believe #capacity #compassion #enough

If people are informed they will do the right thing. It's when they are not informed that they become hostages to prejudice. ↗

— Charlayne Hunter-Gault

#do the right thing #hostages #informed #people #prejudice

Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results. ↗

— Scott Adams

#blaming #comes #decision-making #guessing #inadequate

My own work in spin glass and its consequences has formed some of the intellectual basis for these interests. ↗

— Philip Warren Anderson

#consequences #formed #glass #intellectual #interests

Agents need to be free to pursue investigations in ways that they haven't. There have been restraints that a reformed FBI needs to make sure we don't impose. ↗

— John Ashcroft

#been #fbi #free #haven #impose

It is quite possible we may have formed entirely erroneous ideas of what we actually see. The greenish gray patches may not be seas at all, nor the ruddy continents, solid land. Neither may the obscuring patches be clouds of vapor. ↗

— Edward E. Barnard

#clouds #continents #entirely #erroneous #formed